Ben Savage limped in from middle position, Neil Channing limped from the cutoff, Andrew Scarf limped from the small blind and David Ewing checked in the big blind. All four players saw the flop for the minimum and it came down . Scarf and Ewing checked before Savage fired 1,500. Channing called and then Scarf raised to 5,200. Ewing folded and Savage folded, but Channing made the call with a kiss of his chips.
The turn brought the and a third club to the board. Scarf fired 8,000 and with about 15,000 behind, Channing went into the tanked. He tanked for about a minute before saying, "Bollocks my life." He then tanked for a bit longer while apologizing for taking so long. Eventually, he gave it up and Scarf won the pot to move to 67,000 in chips.
During the break, avid PokerNews follower came over to the blogging desk to discuss some strategy for the final level.
One of our PokerNews bloggers joked that he would like to see McLean open the button with , get three-bet by the big blind to say 5,700, and then have McLean respond with an awkward four-bet of roughly 9,575. With the big blind having only 25,000 to start the hand, he would make a tough stack-size-orientated fold with a holding such as .
So as play kicked off for the level and Andras Kovacs opened the cutoff to 2,000, we indeed found McLean making it 4,500 from the button.
The blinds passed, and after a slight pause, Kovacs made the call to see a flop fall.
Kovacs checked and McLean dropped in a 6,000-chip continuation-bet to force a near instant fold from Kovacs.
McLean flashed his for top pair as he collected the pot to move to around the 60,000-chip mark.
Although it wasn't the we were hoping for, it was close enough, and at least McLean won the pot!
Lee Nelson opened to 2,000 from the cutoff, and with Billy Jordanou in the small blind, he uttered some inaudible banter before eventually opting to fold.
As the dealer pushed the pot to Nelson, he flashed his to prove he wasn't just stealing the blinds as he now moves to 45,000 in chips.
. Scarf and Ewing checked before Savage fired 1,500. Channing called and then Scarf raised to 5,200. Ewing folded and Savage folded, but Channing made the call with a kiss of his chips.
and a third club to the board. Scarf fired 8,000 and with about 15,000 behind, Channing went into the tanked. He tanked for about a minute before saying, "Bollocks my life." He then tanked for a bit longer while apologizing for taking so long. Eventually, he gave it up and Scarf won the pot to move to 67,000 in chips.![[user80015]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
board was checked down to the river until a bet of 2,300 from Sarwer was enough to take the pot away from Benson.
to end Kastle's tournament.
, get three-bet by the big blind to say 5,700, and then have McLean respond with an awkward four-bet of roughly 9,575. With the big blind having only 25,000 to start the hand, he would make a tough stack-size-orientated fold with a holding such as 
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for top pair as he collected the pot to move to around the 60,000-chip mark.